Well I’m glad we here at OSF were busy, but still, hung back to await the deets on whether or not “The Simple Life” reality star: Paris Hilton’s lambasting was warranted or no.
Just as the “#LifeofAJetSetter” Socialite lands in Miami and Instagram’s: “Just landed! I’m in Miami b!tch!”, she must’ve gotten word that Nelson Mandela had passed.
Someone was right on Hilton’s tail though, because no sooner than the she got a chance to pay her Twispects to the fallen leader by stating: “Just landed and heard the sad new about Nelson Mandela. He was a true hero & the world is a better place because of him. May he rest in peace” (no, the missing ‘s’ after news is not my typo, I merely copied and pasted what she typed-verbatim)
Just landed & heard the sad new about Nelson Mandela. He was a true Hero & the world is a better place because of him. May he rest in peace.
— Paris Hilton (@ParisHilton) December 5, 2013
…some prankster (pretending to be her) sent out a Tweet [we guess in an effort to try and make the blonde look really dumb] and posted the following:
“RIP Nelson Mandela. Your “I Have A Dream” speech was so inspiring. An amazing man ♡ “
(We don’t want to underestimate your intelligence, but allow me to interject that the “I Have A Dream” speech was that of another great dignitary named Martin Luther King)
At any rate.
Hilton didn’t take to kindly to that joke. And in more than “simple” fashion-in an ennobling gesture completely antithetical of a selfish, “simple,” Socialite; she replied:
Whoever made that stupid fake tweet lacks respect to the loss the world is mourning right now. Same goes for all the blogs who ran with it.
— Paris Hilton (@ParisHilton) December 5, 2013
Well Paris Hilton, keep OSF in your good graces because we didn’t run with it and we have proof that you are NOT ‘simple’ 🙂
No, @ParisHilton did NOT mistake #Mandela and Martin Luther King. This https://t.co/rVf2bY0hEB
is a hoax of @DeletedTweets.— Factwatch (@factwatch) December 5, 2013
The @ParisHilton Tweet Confusing Nelson Mandela With Martin Luther King Is Fake http://t.co/z699cHw2tQ pic.twitter.com/BwMRKUFy4M
— BuzzFeed (@BuzzFeed) December 5, 2013
Sites need to research before posting "news." The @ParisHilton tweet was obviously photoshopped. And they call themselves journalist? #Lame
— Jake Updegraff (@OnAirJake) December 6, 2013
…AND THEN THERE’S JAKE (THE SNAKE?) who too, secretly tried to call the blonde bombshell on that forgotten ‘s’ (too?)
And obviously in my last tweet I meant to say journalists. I forgot the 's' cause I had to rearrange my tweet to fit the 140 limit.
— Jake Updegraff (@OnAirJake) December 6, 2013
Ohhhhhhhhhhh that classic Twitter front-handed sarcasm under the guise of “defending” the “Simple Life” star…
She even retweeted him [as a] thanks:
Sites need to research before posting "news." The @ParisHilton tweet was obviously photoshopped. And they call themselves journalist? #Lame
— Jake Updegraff (@OnAirJake) December 6, 2013
I dunno.
…Regardless, this story does earn a spot in our “Oh Gah Faux Pas” files here at OSF.
But because it was a hoax, it will too, be categorized in the perspective category to which it belongs: “Popular Culture: Lifestyles, Social Media, Worldwide Popular Culture.”
#StayTuned to Other Side of the Fame (where…we’re simply not “#Lame”)
